Diana Penty Quotes

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

It takes me a while to come out of myself and get to know people.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

If you're a stranger, and you've never met me before, I'll probably be more reserved and quiet. If you're my friend, you probably see the same stuff that you see me do onstage.

I've always been a really open person around my friends.

The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to.

I think I should go out and socialize more, meet more people. But I don't do that a lot.

It is in my nature to be a little shy. It takes time for me to talk to people and trust them.

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.

I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.